xii, 686 pages ; 23 cm

Prologue: origin and aim / Ruth Nanda Anshen -- I. Freedom invades history : Freedom, its history and meaning / James T. Shotwell -- The roots of liberty / Benedetto Croce -- Aspects of freedom / Alfred North Whitehead -- Freedom and equality / Thomas Mann -- Liberty and juridical restraint / Edward Samuel Corwin -- Freedom in America / James Truslow Adams -- The modernization of China and Japan: a comparative study in cultural conflict and a consideration of freedom / Hu Shih -- Freedom in the period of transformation / Paul Tillich -- The balance of progress of freedom in history / Felix Bernstein -- Medieval universalism and its present value in the concept of freedom / Etienne Gilson -- II. Freedom for the mind :Science, freedom, and the world of tomorrow / Robert A. Millikan -- Intellectual freedom / Edwin Grant Conklin -- Academic freedom / Alvin Johnson -- Freedom for education / Frank Kingdon -- Intuition, reason, and faith in science and man's freedom / George D. Birkhoff -- III. Freedom in the body politic : Freedom and government / Bertrand Russell -- Liberty in a democratic state / Ralph Barton Perry -- The meaning of liberty and its perversions / Robert M. MacIver -- Freedom in political thought / Charles A. Beard -- Forms of economic liberty and what makes them important -- Democracy reconsidered / Gaetano Salvemini -- True Americanism / Louis D. Brandeis -- IV. Cultural patterns for freedom : The problem of freedom / John Dewey -- Liberty among primitive people / Franz Boas -- Freedom and science / Albert Einstein -- Was liberty invented? / Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Organic freedom / Ralph W. Gerard -- Freedom and literature / William Lyon Phelps -- The genetic basis for democracy and freedom / Henry A. Wallace -- A comparative study of freedom / J. B. S. Haldane -- V. The essence of freedom : Religion as the basis of the postulates of freedom / John A. Ryan -- Freedom, purpose, and value / Edgar Sheffield Brightman -- Freedom in the personal nexus / John Macmurray -- Freedom and the individual / P.W. Bridgman -- What is freedom? / Kurt Riezler -- A story of three days / Max Wertheimer -- Freedom and nominalism / Wm. Pepperell Montague -- The mechanism of freedom / Charles Morris -- Human freedom: positive and negative / Raphael Demos -- Freedom and obligation / Henri Bergson -- The conquest of freedom / Jacques Maritain -- Epilogue: the liberties of man / Herbert W. Schneider

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